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Fussing and Troubles in COP Land

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 27, 2025

Climate activist Andrew Griffiths, policy director of Planet Mark and cofounder of the Carbon Accounting Alliance, posted:

Despicable… it would seem that COP28 UAE continue to use and abuse their hosting of hashtag#COP28 to promote hashtag#fossilfuels….

He is referring to the United Nations’ 2023 Conference of Parties held in a petrostate (United Arab Emirates) that continues to haunt the hard-core climate activists. Griffiths continued:

I just received an unprompted email from ADIPEC Exhibition and Conference hosted by ADNOC Group, UAE’s national oil and gas company. Maybe it’s pure coincidence and they’ve found my email through some random data supplier, but to my mind the main reason they would have my email address and think I’d be interested is if the hashtag#COP28 Green Zone or other fringe events database was shared with ADNOC to support their marketing.

Revolution Wind Stop Order: Remember Keystone XL (Obama) and LNG Exports (Biden)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 26, 2025

Ed. Note: The government giveth and taketh. The Stop Order issued last Friday regarding Revolution Wind Farm invites a relook at the similar orders against the completion of the Keystone XL Pipeline (Obama 2015) and in-process liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports (Biden 2024).

Statement by the President on the Keystone XL Pipeline (November 6, 2015)

Several years ago, the State Department began a review process for the proposed construction of a pipeline that would carry Canadian crude oil through our heartland to ports in the Gulf of Mexico and out into the world market.

This morning, Secretary [John] Kerry informed me that, after extensive public outreach and consultation with other Cabinet agencies, the State Department has decided that the Keystone XL Pipeline would not serve the national interest of the United States.  …

Angry Michael Mann Isolates Himself (climate exaggeration backfires)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 21, 2025

“And yes, there is empirical, peer-reviewed support for the conclusion that climate deniers, in general, are truly awful human beings.” (- Michael Mann, below)

Michael “Climategate” Mann cannot get out of his own way. His arrogant, condescending social tweets speak for themselves–just as the words, sentences, and paragraphs of the East Anglia emails did. He is not the kind of person you would want in just about any endeavor, much less as a climate scientist trying to present a case.

This post traces Mann’s angst on X and then at BlueSky, his successor to X.

This is my final post on this platform (aside from my social media team’s pro forma posts noted below) until it is no longer owned by Elon Musk. “But on X, my social media team is reposting things” [Joe Romm?].

Solar Bankruptcies: The New Normal

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 20, 2025

‘Big Oil’ and Early Solar: Trying and Failing

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 19, 2025

AI on Me re Climate and Energy (the consensus strikes again)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 14, 2025

“Who Are the Climate Deniers Fighting the Endangerment Finding?” (the new majority, DeSmog)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 13, 2025

Catastrophic Climate Change? (1977 memo to Carter in retrospect)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 12, 2025

On the CO2 Fertilization Effect (real science for EPA)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 11, 2025

Mother Jones (2009): Institute for Energy Research/American Energy Alliance

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 8, 2025